"Let the soldier yield to the civilian."
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"The remembrance of past misery is sweet."
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"A true friend is a sort of second self."
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"There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself."
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"There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely."
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"Philosophy is the true mother of science."
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"Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within."
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"Little by little old age renders the body less powerful."
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"In times of war, the law falls silent."
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"Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery."
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"Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing."
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"...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life."
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"There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue."
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"For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life."
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"To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child"
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"The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]"
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"Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war."
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"Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world."
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"The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue."
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"No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character."
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